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Fogging, Spray: Anti-dengue campaign to begin on April 15
HAFIZABAD: A fogging and spraying drive in the district will begin on April 15. District Coordination Officer Capt (retired) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said that district government workers had been...
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Wedding extra: 5 guests arrested, 3 injured in police beating
FAISALABAD: The Millat Town police arrested five men on Friday for protesting against the police for earlier beating some guests at a wedding where crackers were let off. Three men, who had tried to...
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Fund-raising: 500 students to dance to Harlem Shake today
LAHORE: More than 500 students will take part today in the making of a 40 to 45-second video dancing to the tune of Harlem Shake not just for fun but also to raise awareness about education. Called...
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Childhood on canvas: Young artists make a ‘memoir of the future’
LAHORE: Pages From My Diary is a documentation of artist Saba Saleem’s childhood memories. For the 69 by 109 cm piece, Saleem has patched paintings that depict activities like children playing,...
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PML-N names candidates from three divisions
LAHORE .: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) finalised on Friday the names of candidates for three divisions of Punjab during their central parliamentary board meeting. Friday’s...
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‘Lawyers ignored in awarding PTI’s tickets’
LAHORE: Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) Punjab president Shadab Jafri tendered his resignation on Friday due to the ‘indifference’ of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s leadership towards the lawyers’...
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‘Objectionable’ publication: Four held on blasphemy, terrorism charges
LAHORE: Islampura police on Friday registered a case against six Ahmedis on blasphemy and terrorism charges and arrested four of them including a hawker and editor and printer of an Ahmedi...
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Taking notice: ECP directs withdrawal of Sharif brothers’ ‘extraordinary’...
ISLAMABAD: Election authorities have asked the interim Punjab government to withdraw the ‘extraordinary’ security provided to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, and...
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Health of the province: ‘Medicine sales without prescription is a concern’
LAHORE: Budgetary allocation for the health sector needs to be increased to at least 2.5 per cent of Gross Domestic Product to provide health facilities to people, says a report by Human Rights...
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‘If we can’t enter, nobody else will either’
LAHORE: A group of lawyers locked the judicial lockup at the sessions court on Saturday for about an hour. The lawyers said they had done so after police officials did not allow them to enter the...
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Code of Conduct: Let’s bend rules to avoid breaking them
LAHORE: Some political parties seem to have found a way around the Election Commission rules, which specify the sizes of campaign posters and banners, by putting up posters and banners of prescribed...
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Disease control: 4 children die from measles, 17 new cases reported
LAHORE: Four children died of measles in Lahore on Saturday and 17 new cases were reported. Two-year old Iman from Begum Kot, two-year old Subhan from Ravi Road, four-year old Malika from Mali Pura,...
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Public hospitals: ‘Doctors need to be punctual’
LAHORE: Government Mozang Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Niaz Ahmed on Sunday said that Government Mozang Hospital was a 50-bed state-of-the-art hospital which was catering to around one million...
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Dispute: Mother of three ‘commits suicide’
HAFIZABAD / BAHAWALPUR: The body of a woman was found from a canal near Sheikhupura on Sunday. Her husband, a resident of Thatta Khokhran village, told police that she had jumped into the canal...
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Red-handed: Two thieves beaten up in Faisalabad market
FAISALABAD: A man, said to be a bicycle thief, was beaten up by a mob on Sunday before he was handed over to the Peoples Colony police. Police said Nasir Ali, a security guard at one of the shops in...
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Alleged noncooperation: Family of man murdered over property protest against...
BAHALWALPUR: The family of a man who was shot dead over some property blocked the DPO Office Chowk on Sunday to register their protest against the Samma Satta police for allegedly supporting the...
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Four months of hearing but no verdict
LAHORE: Ghazala Khan, a Christian woman accused of abetment in a blasphemy case registered in Rawalpindi, sought permission and was granted permission by the Lahore High Court chief justice to file...
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Police chase: Boatman killed ‘for refusing to take robbers across Ravi’
FAISALABAD / HAFIZABAD: A boatman was shot dead in Faisalabad on Sunday allegedly by a proclaimed offender fleeing the police after a robbery. Bahlak police said that Asif alias Aaso Amraya and his...
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Exhibition: ‘Most Asian art is water media based’
LAHORE: Eight paintings by Rukhe Neelofer Zaidi depicting traditional Afghan and Irani carpets, women in ethnic shalwar kamees and rural landscapes, are on display at the 39K Art Gallery in Model...
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Entering the race: Elections would be counterproductive to democracy says...
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto) Chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto told a press conference on Sunday that her party was fielding 107 candidates, even though most of them did not have a...
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